The Iranians are masters of asymmetric warfare, showing a penchant for developing, building, fielding and using an array of homegrown weapons systems to counter adversaries that are better-funded, more numerous and far more heavily armed. Check out some of the advanced arms keeping Iran’s enemies up at night.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force demonstrated its capability to lob ballistic missiles at targets over 1,000 km away on Tuesday, firing four Kheibar-Shekan (‘Castle Buster’, ‘Fortress Buster’) missiles at terrorists in Idlib, Syria from Khuzestan province in Iran’s southwest.
Tuesday’s strikes broke Iran’s range record in the use of missiles in combat, and constituted the first major missile attack from the IRGC’s Khuzestan bases since the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988.
Observers quickly dubbed the Kheibar-Shekan one of Iran’s “most advanced solid-propellant missile system[s],” and focused on the strategic implications of the missile’s deployment. Because if the Islamic Republic can use its long-range strike weapons to target terrorists in faraway places, it could very easily use the same capability to target Israel – its regional arch nemesis, or any one of the dozen-or-so major American military bases across the Middle East, in the event of enemy aggression.
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